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A user did research, couldn't find an answer, and asks a question. The new question is closed as a duplicate, but he can't understand the answer provided on the original. How should we alter ...

It seems that, somewhere on the Internet, there's a badly written PHP code sample1 purportedly explaining how to implement reCAPTCHA. Users frequently come to Stack Overflow to ask problems about this ...

Here are four essentially identical questions:
Reset buffer with BufferedReader in Java?
How do I read a file again using buffered reader in Java?
Java BufferedReader back to the top of a text file?
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What's the best way to create and name a primary source question to redirect the high volume of Python questions asking why calling a string operation doesn't change the string.
Naming this something ...

Let's create a new canonical, community-wiki style question. The title could be "How do I use a debugger to debug my own C++ code?"
Here is an example question that I would like to mark as duplicate ...

Every day (pretty much) the ruby-on-rails tag gets questions about JavaScript only working after a page refresh. The problem is (almost) always the turbolinks gem that is included with Rails. I'd like ...

Is there any canonical question about parsing mathematical expressions1 with the proper tools and methods, which can be used for duplicate closure?
1 A somewhat OK answer should be able to parse an ...

The question Why am I getting a NoClassDefFoundError in Java? was asked in '08 and became the "NoClassDefFound" canonical answer for duplicates to point to.
It was closed by the moderator BoltClock ...

In answering questions, sometimes the new users don't know how to do simple debugging. I was thinking of creating a resource which would provide information on how to do that here on Stack Overflow.
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Each and everyday, I come across questions where the OP asks why this is true while the other one is not.
Most of the times, they don't get closed as duplicates and instead receive upvotes for their ...

Over and over between PHP and JavaScript questions I see a lot of question askers who don't understand the difference between server-side and client-side code. I would really like to see a good answer ...

Consider the following scenario in Java:
A developer has written a loop that waits for some state to be changed from a different thread.
The loop doesn't seem to see the change.
The developer adds a ...

Imagine that someone is putting great effort into writing a "catch-all" question with answers for a certain topic.
The answers mostly already exist in one form or another, but this question is meant ...

We want to have canonical questions, with good canonical answers, for frequently asked questions. For a canonical question to be useful if must not be cluttered with details that can vary from case to ...

Firstly some definition.
A “Canonical Question” is a question that is the “target” of at least 1 question that has been closed as a duplicate.
“Direct Canonical Weight” is the number questions that ...

One more idea to get us to the canonical post for duplicates to refer to.
When an unanswered posts is marked as a duplicate (more now will be unanswered thanks to the dupehammer), then its title is ...

A while back, I noticed that a particular Spring question was exceedingly common and wrote up a canonical question on it; I then proceeded to march through a bunch of questions that were essentially ...

I've noticed a rather disturbing trend revolving around canonical questions. It seems as though many people tend to think that canonical questions should be community wiki, that they should not award ...